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NO. 286,111. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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FRANK BOVMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

'BLANK OR COMPOSITION BOOK.

SPECIFICATIQN forming m of Letters Patent No. 286,111, dated October 2, 1883.

' Application filed April 1, 1883. (N0 model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

a book the leaves of which will be compactly secured together, and which maybe separated from the bound portion in condition to be rebound when required, as more fully herein-- after specified.

My improved device is intended to furnish a means whereby the imperfect or blemished -sheets of the book, when written upon, may be removed and cast aside and the perfect sheets rebound and kept together, as more fullyhereinafter specified. These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in'which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved book, showing the same in the form in which it is put upon the market; Fig. 2, a'longitudinal sectionalview taken through the book, showing a pocket attached to one of itscovers; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the book as it appears when the soiled or defacedleaves have been removed and the tape or cord applied, and Fig. 4 a similar view of the V supplemental binding-strip detached.

The letter A indicates a series of paper sheets or leaves, the same being provided with writing guide-lines, if-desired; and the letter A, the outer sheets or covers, made of heavier paper. These sheets and covers are secured atone edge by a binding-strip, B, an adhesive substance being employed for this purpose, thus forming a stiff back, and also, preferably, by metallic fastenings I).

As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the outer sheets or covers, A, are both upon one side of the book, and one of them is provided on its inner surface with a pocket or receptacle, B, for the purpose of carrying the supplemental binding-strip B and the tape 13" until ready for use, as shall presently'appear. 'Just forward of the edge of the binding-strip, the sheets and '5 the covers are perforated, as indicated by the letter C, so that the defaced leaves and the outer of the covers may be removed. The latter is then applied to the opposite side of V the book, as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings. 5 \Vhen thus placed together, they are confined by the tape H, which is threaded or passed through the eyelet-holes D, a series of which are made through all the sheets and covers at a given distance from thetearing-perforations. The supplemental strip B one face of which is furnished with an adhesive coating, is applied to the edge of the leaves and covers from which the stiff back has previously been removed. t It will thus be seen thatI provide a compo sition, writing, or copy book which, when, some of its leaves have become accident defaced, or have been covered with wri may be taken to pieces, its perfect or unu sheets removed, and the original covers "pre served, at the pleasure of the user.

Haviug thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj A blank-book or COIIIPOSiiJlOll-bOOk consist, ing of a series of sheets and covers secured together at one edge, forming a still back, and perforated transversely near said edge, so that the sheets and covers may be readily torn from t the back,thesaid sheets and covers having also at a given distance in front of the tearing-perforations a series of eyelet-holes to receive a binding-cord, so that such sheets and covers will be accurately and readily registered in being re- 1 bound, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of witnesses.

FRANK BOWMAN.

Witnesses SIDNEY B. STUART, WILLIAM H. CAULFIELD, J12, JOHN F. Tlirscor'r. 

